Improvement in vegetable elixirs for the cure of bronchitis



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER FAUIJKNER, OF ROGKVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEGETABLE ELlXlRS FOR THE CURE 0F BRONCHITIS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3,282, dated September 23, 1847;.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER FAULKNER, of Rockv'ille, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have discovered a new and usefulmedicine called the Vegetable Elixir, for' the cure of bronchitis, sore throat, asthma, croup, whooping-cough, and dyspepsia, which is described as follows.

Take two pounds of sweet-a'pple-tree bark, dried, and boil the same in six gallons ofsoft water tillreduced to one gallon. Then strain it. Add two and a half ounces of tartarized anlimony dissolved in. a quart of warm water, fourounces pulverizedjalop, half a pound of nitrate ot' potash, one pint spirits of cam'phor, and half a pound of loafsugar. The whole to be well mixed together and bottled for use.

The dose to be takenmust be in proportion to the age of the patient. 'VVhen under ten years of age from threeto ten drops every six hours, except in case of croup, when ten drops may be taken every ten minutes till itoperates When the patient is over two years of age ten drops should be taken in the first instance, and this dose increased one drop every six hours till nausea be produced. The

quantity producing the nausea must then be taken every six hours till the disease is eradicated.

What I claim as my discovery, and for which I solicit Letters Patent, is-

The before-described medicine for curing bronchitis, sore throat, asthma, croup, whoop ing-cough, and dyspepsia.

P. FAULKNER.

Witnesses:

WM. P. ELLIOT, ALBERT E. JOHNSON. 

